Lara Porzak
"The soul is not digital."
Lara Porzak is an American photographer living and working in Los Angeles. She exclusively works with analog methods, carefully curated to convey the emotion she wishes to express. Her cameras and developing techniques, requiring great technical mastery, date back to the 19th century (tintypes, gelatin silver lith, wet collodion...).
The artist is particularly attached to the materiality of "handmade" photography and seeks to bring out its original magnetism. She poetically captures universal subjects, such as landscapes, revealing their timeless nature. Likewise, she plays on the ambiguity between abstraction and figuration through her practice of soft focus and deliberately expressive tintypes, evoking distant and ever longing imprints of beauty. As the Los Angeles Times aptly described it, "her photojournalistic style combines with the romantic influences of European photographers from the 1930s and 1940s to give her work a timeless quality with a strong sense of narrative”. Her photographs have notably joined the J. Paul Getty Museum collections.
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Bergdorf Goodman 2024
754 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019 3 Sep - 18 Oct 2024The Spaceless Gallery is thrilled to return to Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue for a new exhibition running from September 3rd through October 18, 2024 . This captivating showcase features...Read more -
Maison Veronese
Group show 10 Sep 2022 - 31 Jul 2023The Next Chapter Maison Veronese invites the Spaceless Gallery to celebrate nine decades of infinite possibilities. The Spaceless Gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with Maison Veronese, publisher and...Read more -
NEW FEATURE AT GILLES & BOISSIER
Group show 8 Sep - 31 Dec 2022'New collection' A new curation by the Spaceless Gallery at the Gilles&Boissier Apartment Boutique. For the launch of their new furniture collection, Gilles&Boissier renews its collaboration with the Spaceless Gallery...Read more -
Handle with Care
Hotel d’Aguesseau, 18 rue Séguier, 75006 Paris, France 19 May - 6 Jun 2022After being hosted in spaces and places around the world, the Spaceless Gallery believes that it’s time to invite galleries to join us in a unique multi-gallery exhibition within the...Read more -
Pierre Bonnefille and aurèce vettier
Gilles&Boissier, Paris 15 Dec 2021 - 15 Feb 2022Gilles&Boissier and the Spaceless Gallery wanted to dedicate time to show and promote French artists who propose works in which materiality and poetry are omnipresent.Read more
For this time, the Spaceless Gallery took over the Boutique Apartment to present the work of Pierre Bonnefille, “maître d’art” and painter, alongside a selection of poetic works by aurèce vettier. This artist/poet explores and merges the very manual practice and the computer aspect by realizing encrypted poems engraved on plaster and whose secret is held by the artificial intelligence of his "botanist writings". In contrast to this exploration of language, Pierre explores matter and materials. -
IN(SIGHT)
Leclaireur LA, USA 4 Nov 2021 - 4 Jan 2022As an extension of the exhibition IN(SIGHT) showcased in Leclaireur Hérold Paris, the works of American photographer, Lara Porzak moved across the Atlantic to Leclaireur's parallel space in Los Angeles....Read more -
Lara Porzak & Gabriel Sobin
Gilles&Boissier, Paris 24 Jun - 29 Oct 2021The Spaceless Gallery is delighted to collaborate with Gilles & Boissierto present the work of Franco-American sculptor Gabriel Sobin and American photographer Lara Porzak. Béatrice Masi, the founder of the gallery, shares with Dorothée Boissier & Patrick Gilles the fascination behind these artists, who combine poetry, materiality, and elegance.Read more -
IN(SIGHT)
Leclaireur Hérold, Paris 21 May - 10 Nov 2021The Spaceless Gallery is pleased to introduce the photographic work of the American artist Lara Porzak & French painter Pierre Bonnefille at LECLAIREUR Hérold; old stables, transformed into a magnificent location designed by Armand and Martine Hadida. Béatrice Masi, curator, and founder of the Spaceless Gallery conceived this collaboration to shed new light on the work of Lara, an artist halfway between ancient and modern, who reveals her subjects with a subtle balance between shadow and light. By choosing this place of character, the Spaceless gallery underlines the importance of a dialogue between the work and the place that welcomes it and highlights the synergy that emerges from the association of two parallel worlds.Read more
Lara Porzak's photographic work is carried out using mid 19th century photographic processes. Exploring the equivocality of form, Lara captures scenes from nature with her eye of a romantic photojournalist. More than an automatic gesture, Lara masters the nuance between taking and making the photograph. Like a craftsman, she designs and produces her photographs by transposing the impression into a materialized expression. Among the 28 works selected for this collaborative exhibition, three of them stand out. Imposing and powerful, these photographs bring the viewer back to the place where Lara captured this moment, while the smallest clichés, scattered around this place to intrigue the viewer and intensify his curiosity, intervene like memories. That way they reflect the charm of the place.
Alongside the works of Lara Porzak are three works by French painter Pierre Bonnefille. Using refined powders to produce his pictorial compositions, it is the light that surrounds them that reveals the material and creates an illusion specific to each of the spaces in which they are exhibited. Both artists find their inspiration in nature. Lara uses photography to extract an impression while Pierre expresses the reflections of light on the water in a more abstract way.
For this collaboration, the Spaceless Gallery wanted to establish a multidimensional dialogue between the photographic work of Lara, the pictorial art of Pierre within the intimate atmosphere of LECLAIREUR. It is an experience in which art, fashion and design blend subtly to offer visitors an immersion, a suspended moment in time. -
EXPRESSION D’IMPRESSIONS
P.Bonnefille's gallery, Paris 10 Sep 2020 - 30 Jan 2021From September 2020 to January 2021, the Spaceless Gallery presented an exhibition of works by Lara Porzak and Pierre Bonnefille. Entitled Expression d'Impressions, the exhibition revolved around a multi-dimensional dialogue...Read more -
SPACE(LESS)
Collective exhibition, Paris 8 Oct - 10 Nov 2019The voïd, French Designer and Architect Charlotte Perriand used to say, contains everything, because it represents the ability to move, the potentiality of motion. But, let's imagine an infinite space, without any point of reference. In such a space, movement would be impossible, because there would be nothing to measure the travelled distance. Thus for this proposition to be true, the voïd must at least contain, a milestone/marker.Read more
Situated in its midst, this exhibition “Space (less)” borrows this frame of reference, questioning the existence and acknowledgment of space and how it's understood and perceived in society. What is space and how do we know define or demarcate it? Interpreted differently by our artists, the works of Felicie d’Estienne d’Orves and Pandora Mond take on the mysteries of cosmic space and light. In contrast, the work of Lara Porzak plunges the viewer into a timeless universe where only preserved memories services as a marker of existence. At the same time, the immersive exhibitions of Jayde Cardinalli and Noémie Lacroix provides a sensory perspective, alongside Hugh Findletar, whose works offer a poetic response to the contradictory yet complementary duality of what it means for a cup, a vessel, a demarcated space to be half full. -
GARDENS OF THE MIND
Collective exhibition, Seine-et-Marne, France 6 - 9 Jun 2019As the pace of life quickens and society becomes absorbed into an unyielding cycle of result-oriented tasks and purpose, our minds become an overwhelming reprise of knowledge and thoughts. When then - as they say - do we stop to smell the flowers? The search for a form of repose undoubtedly becomes a unanimous quest as we look both outward to the physical world and inward into our consciousness.Read more